Type: Book 37 pp., black paper hardcover bdg. with gilt-stamped titling on front board and blind-stamped on spine, tec, fore edge deckled. Chamber Music is a collection of poems by James Joyce, published by Elkin Mathews in May, 1907. The collection originally comprised thirty-four love poems, but two further poems were added before publication ("All day I hear the noise of waters" and "I hear an army charging upon the land"). The present is the only American publication authorized by Joyce. Although it is widely reported that the title refers to the sound of urine tinkling in a chamber pot, this is a later Joycean embellishment, lending an earthiness to a title first suggested by his brother Stanislaus and which Joyce (by the time of publication) had come to dislike: "The reason I dislike Chamber Music as a title is that it is too complacent", he admitted to Arthur Symons in 1906. "I should prefer a title which repudiated the book without altogether disparaging it." VG+(light shelf wear with tiny chips at bottom corners boards, paper very slightly yellowed, clean and tight copy) In a custom made high gauge mylar DJ. Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS via Canada Post Express.

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Title: CHAMBER MUSIC
Publisher: B. W. Huebsch
Publication Date: 1923
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st American Edition Stated.
Condition: VG+

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ODYSSEY BOOKSTORE, established in 1986, was located in downtown Montreal in the ground floor a historic apartment building on Rue Stanley. After 30 years of running a brick and mortar store we decided to retire in June of 2015. We have been selling books online since 1998 and are keeping online, an interesting inventory of choice titles. Marie Claire & Bernard Wolf

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